10-22-2018, 01:37 AM
Wikipedia suggests that anything under 500sf is a tiny house which seems reasonable. At 400sf these houses would qualify. I dispute that there is any real definition of what a tiny house is though as so many examples on the internet could only be houses in the imagination of their builders. A real house, tiny or otherwise, has to meet the needs of the occupants and has to be a functioning part of the rest of the community. A 150sf tiny house on wheels that you have to hide from the neighbors, with no acceptable sewage disposal, that meets no life safety codes or RV codes that would let it park in an RV park, and would be a hazard on the highway, should not be considered a house.
I commend this school system and community for embracing these small homes as part of a solution to a housing problem. However they appear to not be tiny houses in the spirit of so many being touted on the internet. They don't look like they are on wheels, I am pretty certain they have some type of effective waste disposal system, and I am certain that they were built according to local codes, not in defiance of them.
The whole tiny house thing gets a bit crazy sometimes, and this coming from someone who lives in a shipping container.
I commend this school system and community for embracing these small homes as part of a solution to a housing problem. However they appear to not be tiny houses in the spirit of so many being touted on the internet. They don't look like they are on wheels, I am pretty certain they have some type of effective waste disposal system, and I am certain that they were built according to local codes, not in defiance of them.
The whole tiny house thing gets a bit crazy sometimes, and this coming from someone who lives in a shipping container.